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We have a a bunch of articles about the Black Widow, and some of them aren’t about the same person. Which I guess can be confusing to people who aren’t experts. So here’s an orientation (Wikipedia would say “disambiguation”) page for your convenience. ...

Context Back in the 1990s when writeups.org started, having a page with links toward similar resources was de rigueur . This usage faded as people increasingly relied on Google. Which isn’t a great idea. Especially when it comes to niche interests. So here’s a...

This oddly popular article discusses our use of cookies, social media buttons, advertisements and affiliate links. No, no, it’s more interesting than it sounds. 1/ Cookies ! Nom nom nom This site uses the following cookies : Google Analytics cookies to get statistics about our...

Context Part of writeups.org’s goal is to encourage people to play super-hero tabletop RPGs. Hence our role-playing games 101 article. However, the second half of the 2010s sees a resurgence of tabletop RPG popularity, particularly D&D. This seems tied to YouTube, which makes...

Writeups.org employs a number of heuristics when it comes to statting and, to a lesser extent, to presenting the characters. We don’t really notice them anymore since we’ve been using them for two decades, but they might be of interest to a few. I suppose it could be called...

What ? Most of the character profiles on writeups.org are from comic books, so showing what the character looks like is trivial. But there are other cases where we need to generate original visuals : Profiles for characters from novels, short stories, choose-your-own books, etc..

Context This is a technical article for the DC Heroes RPG. Finding the DC Heroes rules stuff on writeups.org All our articles that are heavily about technical RPG stuff are filed under the “Technical RPG article” category. You can list this category’s content by : ...

Our article about strength levels in super-hero comic books was more successful than expected. And, as it occurs, it is possible to explain hand-to-hand combat proficiency levels in roughly similar terms. So let’s see if that interests people as well. The basic concepts The character...

Writeups.org (“Worg”) is a community project, not a commercial venture. As such it depends on people rolling up their sleeves and pitching in because they like it. No contributions means no community and no site. It is important to understand that writeups.org is created by a...